Wired News. - 02:00 AM Feb. 14, 2003 PT Bogus Alerts Target PayPal Users - By Christopher Null
PayPal users are under attack by an increasingly sophisticated series of e-mail worms. Since the beginning of the year, at least four e-mail messages disguised as security upgrade announcements from the financial service have hit users' inboxes. While some of the virus-bearing messages are riddled with typos and are relatively easy to spot as frauds, most use perfect grammar. All the recent attacks include links to legitimate PayPal URLs instead of to phony sites. . . . <snip> © Copyright 2003, Lycos, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,57673,00.html